Table A shows the duties
and powers of equality commissions in the UK (the Equal Opportunities
Commission, established under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975;
the Commission for Racial Equality, established under the Race
Relations Act 1976; the Disability Rights Commission, established
under the Disability Rights Commission Act 1999; the Northern
Ireland Equality Commission, established under the Northern Ireland
Act 1998) and elsewhere (the Irish Equality Authority, established
under the Employment Equality Act 1998 and also having regard
to the Equal Status Act 2000; the Canadian Human Rights Commission,
established under the Canadian Human Rights Act 1977; the Australian
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, established under
the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986subsequently
amended; and the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, established
under the Human Rights Act 1993, amended in 2001).

Table B shows the duties
and powers of human rights commissions, some of which also appear
in Table A. These are: the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
(established under the Northern Ireland Act 1998); the Australian
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (established under
the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, subsequently
amended); the New Zealand Human Rights Commission (established
under the Human Rights Act 1993 as amended in 2001 and also having
regard to the Bill of Rights Act 1990); the South African Human
Rights Commission (established under the Human Rights Commission
Act 1994); and the Indian National Human Rights Commission (established
under the Protection of Human Rights Act 1993).